A couple of event announcements for our UK based readers. Firstly – I thought you might like to know about a public appearance of the Nemesis Wind Powered Car happening on the 12th/13th September at the Science Museum in Wroughton, Near Swindon in Wiltshire. It will be part of the family oriented Festival of Innovation. I am hoping to be there with my family on the 12th – so might see you there? It is a free event (although high carbon producing transport will be charged £5 to park).

I have some friends that play with big kites.. never tried that myself, but I used to *love* getting my box kite into the air with extended string watching it go up to a dot and keep it up all afternoon. Ah – those were the days.

These days I would be wanting to attach wireless cameras to them 😉 Hmm…. I wonder….

J

September 10, 2009 at 10:48 am

this loks like it should be good fun – a Great opportunity for those budding photographers too!

Get down there!

Jonny Holt

September 13, 2009 at 12:55 am

Hello Everyone,

The mention of kites got me thinking – I was sure I had seen something on the web about using them to generate power.

These were not the concept that I remember reading about but interesting and amusing to those of us of a techy bent nevertheless:

Zero Carbonista

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